Guinea Ex-Junta Boss Camara Sentenced to 20 Years For Massacre

Guinea has sentenced Moussa Dadis Camara, the military leader who ruled the bauxite-rich nation from 2008 to 2009, to 20 years in prison for his role in a mass killing while he was in power.

Camara “completely failed in his duty to stop the massacre,” Judge Ibrahima Sory II Tounkara said in the judgment at a criminal court in Conakry, the the capital on Wednesday. “The court reclassifies the facts initially classified as assassination, murder, rape and kidnapping as crimes against humanity,” he said.

More than 150 people died in September 2009 when gunmen opened fire on a stadium ...